I wish I’d brought the good camera . . .
In an effort to be free from heavy equipment when beach diving this week, I brought a smaller, lighter camera. An action I lived to regret.
Of course when you are least prepared, you find the critters you have never seen before. At Coral Cove it was the Painted Elysia sea slug - one I have been looking for for years. At Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, it was four different critters - a tiny squid (Brief or Grass still to be determined), a nudibranch (the Crisscross Tritonia, nice spotting Svetlana), a very tiny slug (most likely a Mimic Bosellia (Bosellia mimetica), and a Bandtooth Conger Eel. Photos, yes, but good photos, not so much. At least I had the good camera at Blue Heron Bridge when I photographed this juvenile Sergeant Major.
I rounded out the week with some early morning practice with my new land camera and even newer lens, a cool moth in our garden, and a rocket launch viewed right from the driveway.
